Sensitivity and tolerance of riparian arthropod communities to altered water resources along a drying river

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  McCluney, Kevin E ^a,b   Sabo, John L ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOMASS; CARABIDAE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PIELOU EVENNESS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREDATOR; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; RIPARIAN SPECIES; RIVER; SHANNON DIVERSITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPIDER; TAXONOMY; UNITED STATES; WATER SUPPLY; WOLF SPIDER; ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; BIODIVERSITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ARTHROPODA;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIODIVERSITY; RIVERS; SPIDERS; WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 84907788314     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109276     Document Type: Article

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